The most popular belt in the bush is the plaited kangaroo lace belt. They're strong, look good and last a long time.
Detailed instructions on making plaited belts from 8-16 strands, even a beginner can make a useful belt. Various patterns are illustrated.
Mermaids and mud skippers in the oozy mangroves around Port Douglas.
Spook and Possum were real people, as were all the other characters in this book, and they used to get together at Jondaryan Woolshed once a year for the Heritage Festival.
Full size designs and project patterns to trace onto leather. Patterns for purses, bags, wallets, stubby coolers and small items. Designs with nautical themes, equestrian and floral.
Another adventure of the two old swaggies and their friends. In this one they are sold a unicorn which looks remarkably like a horse with a billiard cue tied onto its head.
All travellers should have a money belt. This gives you lots of designs to suit all sorts of situations.
Some can take items such as passports, others are almost undetectable as money belts. For the professional leatherworker, this book has 10 functional designs.
Edited and illustrated by Ron Edwards. 177 traditional songs with notes and music.
Some of these can also be found in the relevant island songbook.
I would like to thank all the people who appear in this book and also the cabbage which stood up remarkably well for the couple of weeks that I used it as a model.
In 1991 Ron Edwards persuaded the Chinese authorities to let him travel north to south through an old section of Tibet recently annexed to China.
The most dangerous part of this trip was not the threat of landslides or snow blocked passes but an unfortunate incident with a piss-pot in the sinking village of Zoige.
All those little places around Australia that have won the Tidy Towns competition have had to thank Mister Spud for his work in bringing their town up to award winning standard.
